Inventing email was a huge mistake. We gotta undo it.

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Rep. Laura Friedman’s press Hollywood conference in denouncing the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel Live is currently being drowned out by a Fox helicopter

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EXCLU: @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social will announce today he is cancelling a televised town hall with WABC News planned for Sept. 25 in the wake of the network suspending comedian Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show last week. www.amny.com/news/mamdani...

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What is stopping Colbert, Fallon, Meyers, Oliver from having Kimmel on their shows every night until Disney puts him back on air?

someone on here said "years of lead paint" and I can't think of a better caption than that

the bus is better because you can read a book on the bus” 👇👇👇👇👇

Found RFK jr in LA

I've really come to think that many people recoil from climate politics, as they did from Covid politics, not *in spite* of the fact that the problem obviously calls for (can only be solved by) solidarity & cooperation, but *because* of it.

Just saw a guy on Raya with a Labubu in his top photo, as if I needed yet another indication that we have completely lost it as a society

this exists it is called thinking

One of the FOUNDATIONAL parts of fascism is to CONTROL PEOPLE'S BODIES. My God. Bodily autonomy is ANTI-FASCIST. Begging these white men to please SIT DOWN.

I want everyone to take a step back for a second, remember why she was fired from New York and juxtapose this w/ all the high profile media folks that have recently lost *their* jobs. *Some* people are allowed to fail upwards. It's mesmerizing.

So many incredibly talented, smart, hard-working people in journalism are being thrown to the wolves thanks to the decisions of a handful of people with the business foresight of a fucking mayfly

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Los Feliz is having a block party to celebrate Disney on Sunday 9/21 from 12pm to 5pm in case anyone is looking for a protest venue. Corner of Vermont and Kingswell. I’ll be writing to the CD4 councilmember as well. d23.com/d23-event/di...

"If you think there is something bigger at stake here — bigger than Disney’s stock price, bigger than ABC, maybe bigger than all of Hollywood — caving almost instantly to this thuggish demand is outrageous." theankler.com/p/the-kimmel...

At least my neighborhood is still good

ABC doesn't want to be in the linear television business anymore because linear television is on its way out. Any pretext to dump salaries and wind down programming, they will take. I've been saying this for years. Nobody is prepared.

Metro reinstates two LA bus drivers who vowed to protect riders from ICE. An LA County Supervisor and thousands of residents spoke out in support of the bus operators, who now have a 60-day unpaid suspension from their jobs.

a good arbiter of how close we are to bad hybrid regime shit is if the political comedy shows start getting pulled for whatever reason

oligarchic capture of media is one essential part of the right-wing agenda of propaganda *and* censorship. independent media will remain but get increasingly marginalized, harassed, sued, incited against. this is just s.o.p., learned from putin, orban, erdogan, and so on.

Update: It's not just Nexstar “Jimmy Kimmel Live will be preempted indefinitely” - per an ABC spokesperson

if you read one thing today, make it this absolutely devastating piece from a fact-checker who quit the New Yorker bidoun.org/articles/hou...

Built in the 13th century. So that mosque stood for 800 years with every sort of person from every place and every religion in the world passing through Gaza century after century, only for it to be blown up by some shithead loser sitting behind a computer that we probably paid for.

So many incredibly talented, smart, hard-working people in journalism are being thrown to the wolves thanks to the decisions of a handful of people with the business foresight of a fucking mayfly

media at large is in dire fucking straights and a lot of us (writers and editors especially) could have told you all of this was coming based on watching executives (many of whom don't even READ) make the dumbest decisions possible

The fix is in. Get your COVID vax THIS WEEK, friends. Do not wait if you can avoid it.

Fear will try to convince us to isolate, to hoard resources, to avoid community, to build the least threatening campaigns making little impact. A grounded risk assessment will move us closer to each other, it’ll remind us of that we are millions, it’ll make our work more bold and more brave.

Some of you haven’t put your headphones on and listened to Canadian art rock band Sunset Rubdown’s 2009 studio album ‘Dragonslayer’ as loud as possible today and it really shows

Q: Do you think it would've been fitting to lower the flags to half staff when Melissa Hortman, the Minnesota House Speaker, was gunned down by an assassin? TRUMP: I'm not familiar. The who?

I don't know how many times I can say it, or how many ways, but the right's actions *are not caused by the left*. They want power & control. They want to destroy the left, crush its organizing mechanisms, jail its leaders, and rule without opposition. THEY DON'T NEED EXCUSES.

"Chuck Schumer, why are you doing this? Hakeem Jeffries, why are you doing this?...It's the donors...They're not up to the moment...sternly worded letter? ARGHH." On 'We're Not Kidding', watch @markruffalo.bsky.social 'hulk out' over the uselessness of top Dems. Full show: zeteo.com/p/exclusive-...

i would believe anything this man and his forearms have to say to me

Basel Adra, the Palestinian co-director of the Oscar-winning documentary “No Other Land,” told The Associated Press that Israeli soldiers conducted a raid at his home in the occupied West Bank on Saturday, looking for him and searching his wife’s phone.

HAMNET wins at TIFF. We have an Oscar frontrunner www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...

Forgot to put the sheets on the bed before going out for drinks again Will I ever learn

New, w/ @mulchy.bsky.social & @djbyrnes1.bsky.social: ICE shot & killed an immigrant in the Chicago suburbs yesterday. Then they immediately gave a misleading account of events. Chicago erupted in chaos and a father who lived here for decades is dead. This is what really happened:

Got my unread emails down from 50+ to 4! Now to make sure nobody ever emails me ever again

Bars don’t have one tiny TV in the corner by the ceiling to watch the game on like they used to

Pivoted so hard they affected the earth's rotation

Time Magazine's cover this week is "Enough. The Killing of Charlie Kirk and the Epidemic of American Political Violence." They did not do a similar cover when 2 Democratic politicians were murdered earlier this year. Why does this seem to be so consistent?

"Political violence" is a term that exists to suggest a moral distinction between "violence against politicians" and "violence by politicians" - so that one can be condemned while the other can be normalized. Obviously, no such distinction exists in reality: violence is violence.

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